Cardinal Malcom Ranjith slammed Sri Lanka's Independence Day parade held at Galle Face at a time when some people in the country are hungry with no food.
The Cardinal said that holding a parade for some foreign dignitaries to see disrespects the people living in hunger.
He also asked if Indepe
Appeals unheeded: President Wickremesinghe appointed Deshabandu Thennakoon, whom the same local commission of inquiry into the massacres accused of negligence, as inspector general of Sri Lanka's police. The Catholic Church:
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Rome Newsroom, Aug 28, 2023 / 01:00 am (CNA)..
Thousands of Catholics on Friday gathered for human chains and a memorial mass in Sri Lanka in memory of the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday serial bombings, in which 269 people were killed and hundreds wounded.